February 2018
Are we asking the right questions about space debris?
... some challenges related to the accurate placement (in time and space) of a nudging cloud [8]. The motivation for MCMA is to monitor and characterise a small, but consequential, subset of the catalogued population with the hypothesis that they pose...
February 2023
Remote sensing by satellite - People’s Republic of China
... three-axis stabilised CAST968 platform. CASTChina plans to launch a total of 11 Huanjing satellites for disaster and environmental monitoring with visible, infrared and multi-spectral sensors, and synthetic-aperture radar The HY 1 series [2002, 2007...
October 2017
Colouring our view of the oceans
... of about 814 km. Carrying a suite of instruments, it was designed to observe Earth’s oceans, land, atmosphere and ice; and to monitor large-scale global dynamics. Sentinel-3A is now providing critical near-real time information for numerous ocean...
November 2017
Geospatial maritime solutions
... in its logbook and for providing misleading reports to Transport Canada Marine Safety. exactEarth AIS offers capability to monitor and identify vessels that illegally report false locations for ballast water exchange — a requirement of any vessel...
February 2019
European system for global weather forecasting and climate change detection
... in the troposphere and stratosphere with high vertical resolution. GOME-2, also developed by ESA is the Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment-2, measuring profiles and columnar amounts of ozone and other atmospheric constituents; and ASCAT is the ESA...
October 2020
Essential role of satellites in disaster and pandemic management
...flooded areas following a flash flood disaster in April 2020. Following detailed observation planning, a satellite can be used to monitor a disaster’s evolution, record data and transmit it to the ground for analysis and fast report response. Members...
